Stupid question

[Spurchaser]

Ok, just curious and don’t laugh, but has anyone ever used the siren sounds on their e-callers to locate coyotes.
I’m not talking while on the stand, but riding properties and playing it to see if any howl for location purposes?
Only reason I ask is I was out one evening in the past (not coyote hunting) and an ambulance went down the highway and a group lit up. I wasn’t even thermal hunting at that time, only trapping back then but it gave me an idea of where to set. Just started thinking about today and thought I’d ask. And don’t be afraid to say that’s the stupidest idea yet, lol.

 

[Heymartay]

I haven’t but always thought I should.i guess if I lived closer to my hunting spots I could do a reconnaissance drive and do some locating. They dont always answer to howls.

 

[BleedsBlue]

That's old school, it's a good sound to use when scouting from the road to locate packs.

 

[limbhanger10]

...dog runners here do it all the time.

We still have a lot of fire dept sirens

 

[jmeddy]

No but they sometimes respond to sirens here

 

[Utahcaller]

Do it all the time. Works very well. Driving the roads early morning. Get several locations of Coyotes then go back at daylight and call those areas

 

[GC]

Do it all the time. Works very well. Driving the roads early morning. Get several locations of Coyotes then go back at daylight and call those areas

Been doing it for years. It works, especially in rural areas where coyotes don't hear sirens often.

 

[LONEHOWL]

Yes

 

[crapshoot]

Lots of people used actual bumper mounted sirens for locating long before ecallers were popular.

 

[BleedsBlue]

Might see an uptick in CB radio sales after this thread lol

 

[GC]

All the hillbillies have CB radios, Gotta radio the direction the hounds are pushing the coyote, hog, or deer. Plus report any sightings of, and the whereabouts of Mr. Greenjeans.

 

[hunt0168]

I hunt a property that is within earshot of the local fire department. I can’t tell you how many times the coyotes have sounded off to the sirens while I was sitting in a tree stand bowhunting.

 

[Terry Lightle]

Yes,but only before ranchers start calling cattle with them.Right or wrong I do not know just how I do it.But only from county road

 

[Rock Knocker]

The siren used to be talked about all the time. A few years ago I lived closer to the cities and we would hear sirens every once in a while when we were hunting at night, no matter what we were doing we would stop and wait for all the coyote replies.

Ive tried it hunting a few time, I borrowed a neighbors loud speaker that had a siren button on it but it never worked the same.

 

[hunt0168]

I’ll also mention that in the case of the firehouse that I mentioned in my previous post, it was the actual firehouse call siren that fired them up more-so than the sirens on the trucks or emergency vehicles. The longer, drawn out siren that sounds like an air raid siren.

 

[BBK]

You can't play a siren on the road while driving, that'll get you a ticket. But if you parked in a private lane or out in a field you sure can. Ive heard them light up many times on the noon whistle, or when the volunteer fire dpt came by blaring the Q

 

[SixsixtyMags]

I live just off a ridge where there is a fire co. on the North side of it at one end, and a fire co. on the South side at the other end., When either one of them activated the siren, multiple coyotes would start howling up on that ridge.
I haven't heard the howling in quite a while, either the coyotes moved out due to an active mining operation on that ridge (large sand quarry), or they no longer respond to the sirens. ??
Pretty much the same as hunt0168, the firehouse siren is what really set them off, not the responding vehicle sirens that followed.

 

[Sprinkman]

I always thought that sirens seemed a little crazy. Until one day when I was out hunting and the local volunteer fire company went out on a call sirens ablazing. The area lite up with coyotes. As long as that siren could be heard, they howled back. Since than, I have used a siren sound as an occasional locator.

 

[Nrcamo]

It’s been used for years to locate coyotes. I’m 78 and it was being used when I started.

 

[derbyacresbob]

Just because you hear coyotes at a location doesn't mean they will still be there one hour later. A coyote can easily walk and slow trot 2 miles in 30 minutes.